He has been nominated for a BAFTA three times, including for Best Writer at the 2017 BAFTA Children's Awards - and won a Sony Radio Academy Award for his work on the Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show. In 2015, his Christmas special for the 4 O'Clock Club won Best Children's Fiction at the Royal Television Society Awards.

In a previous life, writing under the name Mr Biffo, Paul was one of the UK's top video games journalists, editing the legendary teletext video games magazine Digitiser, and writing a monthly column in Edge magazine. He is a regular columnist in Retro Gamer.

In 2017 he successfully crowdfunded Mr Biffo's Found Footage, a surreal and anarchic sci-fi comedy series for YouTube, which culminates in an ambitious 20-minute short film, which he wrote and directed.

In 2018 he ran another successful Kickstarter, raising almost £45,000 to produce aanother online series, Digitiser The Show - an ambitious six-part comedy panel show focusing on the history of video games. It marked his first on-screen appearance as a presenter.